biography
| name: |
Muratori, Ludovico Antonio
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pronunciation:
[ muratohree]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1672–1750)
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| biography:
| Scholar and historian, born in Vignola, Emilia-Romagna, N Italy. A clergyman, he worked at the Ambrosiana Library and then from 1700 as an archivist for the house of Este in Modena. He studied numerous papers on the history of Italy which resulted in the Rerum italicarum scriptores (1723–51), a collection of written sources of the 6th–16th-c, and the Annali d'Italia (1744–9). An Arcadia member, he wrote Della perfetta poesia italiana (1706) which gave balance as the base for the movement's poetics. He also strongly believed that Italy's cultural renewal could only come from rationalism. |
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